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- noun Plural form of
mockery .
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Examples
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The later ones were mockeries of their former selves but still watchable.
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Oh! how I hate its shews and mockeries! when one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.
Chapter 7 2010
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Mr. Bezmozgis rarely plumbs deeper than such twinkling mockeries.
Lost in Transit Sam Sacks 2011
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Today's screenwriters would benefit if they would rid themselves of scripts that are silly mockeries of truly romantic stories, and instead write about real men and real women.
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However, all too often naming a new character and attempting to create a complete person with quirks and frailties out of thin air ensures a creative blockage descends upon ones fingers and mind; disallowing the progress; resulting in lifeless husks or worse stereotypical mockeries of humanity wandering the text.
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I admit to my anger at the Chris Rocks of the world and others like him for making mockeries of us in terrible movies like Good Hair.
Janet Hubert: The Angry Black Woman (Truth or Myth) Janet Hubert 2011
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But the film does have some very fun moments, including mockeries of golf and Texas that won't be forgotten any time soon.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Treme Frustrating, Fun; Tangled; the Real Arthur and More! Michael Giltz 2011
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Never mind the details which make the names of these programs sad mockeries of good governance.
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With a combined 12 Pro Bowls and six all-pro selections, they made mockeries of their pre-draft scouting reports.
The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final 2009
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I think the most widely criticized themes in the game are almost mockeries of us, the players - they know if they build the means for us to do those things, we'll run pell mell to do it, and vigorously defend our actions.
Archive 2008-06-01 SVGL 2008
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